Archives - 20 March 2017, Monday

When designing a medical IoT device, care must be taken to select the right silicon. With tight development cycles compressing the limited available time dedicated to security features, processors with built-in security IP blocks establish a solid foundation. Today’s system-on-chip (S...

In research published this week in Nature Energy , researchers at Kaneka Corporation, a resin and plastics manufacturer based in Osaka, describe the first silicon solar cell to achieve a record-breaking 26.3-percent efficiency—a 0.7-percent increase over the previous record. That may ...

As more IoT devices come online, machine intelligence will increasingly be classified as a system’s ability to ingest information from its ambient environment via sensor inputs before taking immediate, autonomous action – even in the event that the readings associated with those input...

There are many things people do with spare rooms. Some make guest rooms, others make baby rooms, while a few even make craft rooms. What do hackers do with spare rooms? Turn them into giant 3D printers of course . [Torbjørn Ludvigsen] is a physics major out of Umea University in Swede...

Ted Sargent and his team at the University of Toronto have done many things with quantum dots: boost solar cell efficiency , invent infrared imagers , optoelectronics you can apply with a paint brush . Now Sargent and his team have added a new spice to their recipe for colloidal quant...

Today the 2017 Hackaday Prize begins! This is Hackaday’s global engineering initiative that encourages people to direct their skill and energy to make the world a better place. We call it the Hackaday Prize , but it’s far more than that. Join a community of talented people who enrich ...

« Previously: China bets big on Industrial IoT The following data is derived from results of a survey conducted during 2016 China Industry Internet Conference held in Shenzhen last June. With a survey base of 350 participants, it partly reflects the overall development trend of China'...

[Sami Pietikäinen] was working on an embedded Linux device based on an Atmel SAMA5D3x ARM-A5 processor. Normally, embedded Linux boxes will boot up off of flash memory or an SD card. But if you’re messing around, or just want to sidestep normal operation for any reason, you could conc...

Project Literacy, which has been raising awareness for its cause at SXSW 2017, recently released a report, “ 2027: Human vs. Machine Literacy ,” that projects machines powered by AI and voice recognition will surpass the literacy levels of one in seven American adults in the next 10 y...

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China is pushing hard to develop the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the country. The Chinese government projects the country’s Industrial Internet of Things to grow to RMB450 billion (about $65 billion) by 2020—occupying roughly one quarter of China’s whole IoT market. The II...

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Oh, for Pete’s sake. The conspiracy theorists need to up their game. A 2500-hour bulb burns dimmer, less efficiently, so costs more in power, and requires more generator plant infrastructure for a given number of sockets or lumens delivered. A brighter, more efficient bulb will cost l...

Researchers have developed a family of elastomers that they believe are the most elastic to date and can be fabricated using 3D-printing technologies, making these useful materials more accessible for a range of applications from soft robots to flexible electronics. A team of engineer...

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[gw0udm] had an ancient monitored alarm system fitted to their home, and decided it was time to upgrade to something a little more modern. They chose a system from Texecom, but when it came time to hook it up to their computer, they were alarmed at the costs – £40 for what amounted to...

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PARIS – On the day EE Times visited Chronocam, a Paris-based startup developing an event-based computer vision technology, a ripple of shock went through the whole building. Intel had just announced the acquisition of Mobileye . The big surprise hit shortly after a talk with the start...

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2017 Hackaday Prize Begins Right Now Today the 2017 Hackaday Prize begins! This is Hackaday’s global engineering initiative that encourages people to direct their skill and energy to make the world a better place. We call it the Hackaday Prize, but it’s far more than that. Join a comm...

[Jason] converted an Easy Bake Oven to USB . If you have to ask why you’ll never know. Easy Bake Ovens have changed a lot since you burnt down your house by installing a 100 Watt light bulb inside one. Now, Easy Bake Ovens are [bigclive] material. It’s a piece of nichrome wire connect...

Farnell element14, the Development Distributor, has made the BBC Micro:bit available for sale across Europe. The BBC micro:bit is a hands-on, easy-to-use introduction to the world of technology and is packed with features that provide endless possibilities for creativity. The device i...

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Transparent, conductive glass is cool stuff and enables LCD panels and more. But the commercial method involves sputtering indium-tin oxide, which means a high vacuum and some high voltages, which is doable, but not exactly hacker-friendly. [Simplifier] has documented an alternative p...

Farnell element14, the Development Distributor, has made the BBC Micro:bit available for sale across Europe. The BBC micro:bit is a hands-on, easy-to-use introduction to the world of technology and is packed with features that provide endless possibilities for creativity. The device i...

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The ‘Big Idea Challenge’ is a competition for students to come up with an innovative business or social enterprise idea. Aimed at college students who dream about starting their own business one day, the Big Idea Challenge is a competition to help learn how to develop an idea into a p...

Brian Krzanich, Intel's chief executive, has talked up the company's swift move into markets like cars and sensors, but he has been forced to admit a slowdown elsewhere. Intel's engineers are now taking two and half years to double the number of transistors in new generations of chips...

Siemens awarded wind turbine order from EDF Luminus for two projects in Belgium Hamburg, 2017-Mar-20 "Katoen Natie" project located in Beveren, "Sibelco" in Dessel 15-year service-contract included EDF Luminus, the second largest player in the Belgian energy market, has ordered wind t...

EDF Luminus, the second largest player in the Belgian energy market, has ordered wind turbines at Siemens Wind Power for two projects located in the Belgian municipalities of Dessel and Mol as well as in Beveren. The nine 3.2 megawatt (MW) machines of the Siemens D3 product platform w...

Roof is based human evolution under the roofs.The roofs have played a significant role in the human evolution, especially, providing privacy and security for the people and their possessions. In addition, the people under the roof is part of a family or related, there is a trust built...

Is [SpongeBob SquarePants] art? Opinions will differ, but there’s little doubt about how cool it is to render a pixel-mapped time-lapse portrait of Bikini Bottom’s most famous native son with a roving light painting robot . Inspired by the recent trend of long exposure pictures of lig...

Voice recognition is this year’s model for home automation, but aside from feeling like you’re onboard the Aries 1b arguing with HAL 9000, it just doesn’t do it for our geeky selves. So what’s even geekier? How about carrying around an ocarina in your pocket so that you can get a Rasp...

GaN RF power semiconductor devices gained meaningful market share over the last two years, despite a lackluster 2016, with 2017 promising further growth. ABI Research forecasts GaN RF power devices will capture nearly 25 percent of all high power semiconductors for mobile wireless inf...

PARIS – On the day EE Times visited Chronocam, a Paris-based startup developing an event-based computer vision technology, a ripple of shock went through the whole building. Intel had just announced the acquisition of Mobileye . The big surprise hit shortly after a talk with the start...